Tag Archive | "finding a job"
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
As a career coach and career preparation expert working on the Future Jobs Fund Programme aimed at getting young people aged 18 to 24 back into work, I have the opportunity to review many CVs. For many of these young people it is their first foray into the world of work, so I wanted to [...]
Blog, Career Coaching, Resources
Is it who you know, on-line networking or more traditional methods that are best to find out about vacancies?
Here are top ten tips that harness all three approaches.
Ten Top Tips
1. Work out what you can offer to employers and design your personal brand statement
Your personal brand statement needs to possess three qualities according to Career [...]
Blog, Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
In last weeks post we discussed how to optimize job hunt research techniques in the digital age. This week we show how you can make the most of digital job hunting.
Job-hunting
There are so many online job-hunting resources out there - too many it seems at times - that you could spend all your time just [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
Ten years ago iPlayer, iTunes and YouTube didn’t exist. Hard to believe isn’t it? And the same digital revolution that hit the entertainment industry is having a big impact on job hunting and recruitment.
Online job boards, recruiters on Twitter and professional social networking sites are just some of the changes that have taken place. Overwhelming? [...]
Events, Resources, Work Experience
We’ve been approached by the Vodafone Foundation’s World of Difference UK to tell you about a fantastic opportunity for you to boost your CV and get great experience within the third sector.
World of Difference UK is giving over 500 people the opportunity to undertake two month paid placements with a UK charity of their choice; funded by the [...]
Career Preparation, Resources
Its tough out there on the open job market, so accessing the unpublished or hidden job market is all the more important!
Social networking using Linked In and Twitter can be a pivotal strategy for tapping into the unpublished market.
According to UK Recruiter , recruiters and potential employers are using both Linked In [...]
Resources
When you do something different with your career – it is a big change! This is true whether the change is planned or unexpected, and whether it is positive or negative.
We anticipate what will change as a result of us being in a different role, company, team, industry sector, self-employment or unemployment. We will work [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation
“Whether we face a recession or prosperity, whether times are hard or easy, the major difference between successful and unsuccessful job-hunters is not some external factor out there (such as a tight job market), but the way we choose to go about our job hunt.” (taken from What Color is your Parachute)
And that means finding [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Work Experience
Have you ever worked on a winning team? If you have you’ll know the living spirit that imbues and influences every team member – a spirit that can inspire a whole team to extra ordinary levels of performance.
Have you ever worked in a team with sinking morale? If you have you’ll know the way that [...]
Career Preparation, Resources
Last weeks episode of the Apprentice showed the last 5 in the gruelling CV and interview round. What are the lessons to be learned?
Lesson One from Yasmina “The Entrepreneur”
Get you numbers straight
Employers love to see numbers on a CV; it shows quantitative evidence of your achievements. So include figures and percentages such as, how much [...]
